Sentence Equivalence Example 1 reads: 'Although it does contain some pioneering ideas, one would hardly characterize the work as ______.' Which pair of answer choices is correct?
Aorthodox and conventional
Beccentric and trifling
Corthodox and innovative
Doriginal and innovative
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. original and innovative
The pivot 'although' flips meaning: the work has pioneering ideas, but overall it is not pioneering. The blank therefore takes synonyms of 'pioneering' that the 'hardly' then negates. 'Original' and 'innovative' produce equivalent sentences. 'Orthodox' and 'conventional' are a clean synonym pair but mean the opposite of pioneering, so the 'although' flip is broken.
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